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...charges in federal district courts. The 5-4 decision marked the fourth time the court has ruled against Administration attempts to create a separate legal framework for holding and prosecuting Gitmo detainees but prompted Justice Antonin Scalia to warn in a scathing dissent that the nation "will live to regret what the Court has done today...
...Islamist group's dwindling membership. "They have tried to kill me. But I never thought of leaving Jolo. I know the armed forces will protect me. And if I leave, the terrorists will suspect me more. They will come after my family." Chief says he doesn't regret what he did. "I didn't do it because of the money. I felt it was my duty to protect myself and other people. My motivation is peace...
Novels, movies and TV--not to mention reality--have trained us to expect the other shoe to drop: the childhood abuse, the secret self-loathing, the I've-been-to-paradise-but-I've-never-been-to-me regret. It never does. Oh, Belle/Hannah's life is more complicated than she first lets on. She hides her work from her family and her best friend/ex-boyfriend Ben (Iddo Goldberg). She has vague literary ambitions and is aware that hers is a job without a long future. And despite the high-class, clean-and-safe veneer, she has to call her agency...
...Justice Scalia added that the U.S. is "at war with radical Islamists," and that the Boumediene ruling "will almost certainly cause more Americans to get killed." Scalia warned, "The nation will live to regret what the court has done today...
...Bush himself seems to know how he is viewed in Europe, and to regret it. In a revealing interview with the Times of London before his trip, much of the old bluster was gone. He worried that the gunslinger language of his first term "indicated that I was not, you know, a man of peace." He tried to remind Europeans that "America is a force for good. America is a force for liberty. America is a force to fight disease." He even conceded - this from a Texas oilman - that the rich nations of the world would have to "transfer...